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Clashes of Knowledge: Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

Clashes of Knowledge: Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion

Meusburger, Peter
Welker, Michael
Wunder, Edgar

Hardcover

Series: Knowledge and Space, Book 1

Sports GeneralGeneral EducationGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1402055544
ISBN13: 9781402055546
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Apr 15 2008
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Clashes of Knowledge is the first volume in a book series called Knowledge and Space dealing with spatial disparities of knowledge and the impact of the spatial context on the production and application of knowledge. The contributions in this book explore the conflicts between various types of knowledge, especially between orthodox and heterodox knowledge systems, which range from religious fundamentalism to heresies within the scientific community itself. Does the traditional distinction between belief and knowledge still make sense? How is the difference between knowledge and belief understood in different cultural contexts? How have the religious-based knowledge systems been displaced in their hegemonic role by scientific knowledge? In which ways do the agents of hegemonic, orthodox knowledge interact with the representatives of deviating, heterodox knowledge? These and many other questions are addressed by scholars of geography, history of science, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology, theology, etc. A number of articles describe how scientists attempt to systematically exclude implausible knowledge claims from their disciplines and how the boundaries of science are subject to historical change and to spatial and cultural contexts.

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